Water cooling returns to IBM mainframe
IBM next week will add water-cooling to a mainframe offering for the first time in 15 years; the company has started offering the technology fror blade servers and supercomputers in recent years.
Supercomputing in the cloud gains momentum
More companies are expected to move to on-demand supercomputing services to slash costs and improve production during a stagnant economic period.
A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career
Kristin Harper's decision to become an expert in mainframe technology could prove to keep her employed during good and bad times as more and more of today's experts pass retirement age.
The lions of IT, the mainframe pros, learn new post-recession approaches
Gray-haired systems administrators dominate the hallways and meeting rooms at the IBM Share conference, and not always by choice. Businesses haven't been hiring a lot of new IT employees, and in some cases retirements have been put off as a result of the downturn.